You're in the toy niche? You're up against people buying millions of high-retention views. So what should you do? Start buying LOTS of views.
No you don't !!
I would advise OP to take suggestions ONLY from people who actually have insight into this and run a toy channel... or manage one...or many..
@DanielOnYouTube Do you own/manage one ? Cursory advise like this while well intentioned may drain OP's already thin bank balance.
OP sent you screenshots and replied to your message there. I would sincerely warn you to take advise from people who meet 2 criteria:
1. Don't sell views/subs/wateva (They have a vested interest)
2. Run a toy channel (Dynamics of this niche are VERY different..Well meaning people like daniel may lead you astray because of lack of first hand experience in this)
I've been on YouTube since 2009- before Toy Channels were even around.
Yes I agree. I know that I certain number of views / subs they have are fake. I'm just wondering how they can afford to buy SO MUCH. I just looked at a site. It's $40 per 1k subs. So just for 10k that would be $400. 4,000 for 100k . And that's not even close to 800k that they got. Not to mention 2 million subs that a channel that started at the same exact time we did got. Factor in that they have 200k to 1 million views on so many videos, you would have to be rich to get anywhere. Is that what it is? I just don't have enough money to get anywhere?
I have not done any back links no.
I think part of this post is to ask what I am missing. I have tried everything I can think of to get traffic. No clue what I am missing! The niche isn't a problem. I am seeing channels all the time in the same niche who have been around for less time than we have who are seemingly killing it. And by the way, their quality is nowhere near ours in video or anything else! I've seen some with100 or so videos with over 500k subs. We have 352 videos! It's not the nice that is the problem. It is something we are doing wrong.
Also one example is a channel called Grace's World (something like that, not exact name) . I looked at the SEO. It's awful. It uses like 5 keywords per video and they are words like, jump, dive, sink, play, fun, kid, doll, etc. The description is like "Barbie is jumping having fun" . And the title is like "Barbie new day out" . The worst SEO that goes against anything I learned about SEO. Each video she has is in the millions of views! 4mil, 6mil, 32mil, etc. THAT'S SO EXPENSIVE! No one can BUY all those. NO WAY. SO how are they doing it?? They only have 108 videos! 549k subs! That would cost a fortune!!! Their top video has 57k views! And there are a bunch like that. HOW!? lol . NO SEO at all!
This is the SEO in one video: latest, Australia, Room, Boat, watch, Grace Mulgrew, free, online, Fun, Island, Adventure, Australian, Barbie, Barbie Adventure, Video, Cruise Ship, Ken, Grace's, Dolls, New, YouTuber, Barbie Cruise Ship, Isabella, Annabelle, Kids
Description: Barbie, Ken and the twins are off on a cruise ship adventure
THAT'S IT!
Your demo is mainly hanging around snapchat. You should take your best content pieces and chop them up into short snippet "trailer" type of clips and put them out across your social media platforms. Add subtitles and ill say it again ... make sure they are good clips you put out. It's quite simple you just need to master the channels. If you take what I said seriously and become a practitioner then you will begin to see the growth.
Maybe they have a good website with large traffic
Maybe they have a good instagram account with lot of traffic
Maybe they have a twitter account with a lot of traffic
Maybe they have a big facebook page with good traffic
Maybe they have an other good network
Not all big youtube channels are (fake) or spended a lot of $$$$.
If it was that easy everybody has a big youtube channel and earning $$$$.
It is not easy but it is possible
I just wanted to thank everyone for being so kind to us and offering help. I am now working with someone from here who has been nice enough to offer extended help. I don't want to name who it is in case he doesn't want me to, but thank you so much! I will keep everyone posted on our progress. Again thank you everyone for the advice and for taking the time to help. You guys are so nice. Hopefully I have positive news to report soon! We love you guys! Thank you!
Garbage.. Not all niches work that way.. a Toy niche channel putting content out on play doh will get zero or negligible accidental traffic via IG, FB, Tw, etc.. This is the definition of shit advise. Which 5 year old is on IG ? hahaha..
Lol I was thinking the same thing. I could not imagine my 3yr old being anywhere near IG, FB or twitter.